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2020/015: The Museum of Modern Love -- Heather Rose
Thursday, February 20th, 2020 08:45 am2020/015: The Museum of Modern Love -- Heather Rose
Set in New York, in 2010, around the real performance The Artist is Present by Marina Abramović at the Museum of Modern Art. Abramović sat for seventy-five days, up to nine hours a day, and looked into the eyes of whoever was sitting opposite her.( no spoilers )
She is swimming in sensations, thoughts, memories and awareness like everyone else, but while this happens she looks into the eyes and hearts of strangers and finds a point of calm. It is her metier to dance on the edge of madness, to vault over pain into the solace of disintegration. [p. 58]
Set in New York, in 2010, around the real performance The Artist is Present by Marina Abramović at the Museum of Modern Art. Abramović sat for seventy-five days, up to nine hours a day, and looked into the eyes of whoever was sitting opposite her.( no spoilers )
